Welcome to DBSTalk

Welcome to DBSTalk. Our community covers all aspects of video delivery solutions including: Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS), Cable Television, and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). We also have forums to discuss popular television programs, home theater equipment, and internet streaming service providers. Members of our community include experts who can help you solve technical problems, industry professionals, company representatives, and novices who are here to learn.

Like most online communities you must register to view or post in our community. Sign-up is a free and simple process that requires minimal information. Be a part of our community by signing in or creating an account. The Digital Bit Stream starts here!

Just to let you know, I am a regular contributor to Lyngsat and very good it is - but please can someone tell me the correct VPID for all the channels listed as 0 rather than 00E6. Do I assume that the VPID is 0 if no audio PID is present so whatever receiver was used can only receive the channel properly if sound is present at the time of the scan?

If there are any channels I have missed with VPID of 0 on the spreadsheet, please can you confirm the correct VPID - is it 00E6 in all cases? Thanks.

Just to let you know, I am a regular contributor to Lyngsat and very good it is - but please can someone tell me the correct VPID for all the channels listed as 0 rather than 00E6. Do I assume that the VPID is 0 if no audio PID is present so whatever receiver was used can only receive the channel properly if sound is present at the time of the scan?

If there are any channels I have missed with VPID of 0 on the spreadsheet, please can you confirm the correct VPID - is it 00E6 in all cases? Thanks.

Can't grasp your idea of such interest to US provider totally unavailable in UK.

Sorry I should not have put "no" at the beginning of that. I like to follow television transmission information around the world - there is less info known about DirecTV than most other packages so that is why I was curious.

It was for information purposes. I noticed that virtually every other platform around the world had a lot of info known about it apart from DirecTV (there may be some more) - so your spreadsheet competes the picture.

Example ... Cinema 132 is network 10 in the excel and shows as D10 1040. Since network 10 is usually D11, how do you know it's D10 1040 and not D11 1040. I know you have it correct, but how do you know it?

Example ... Cinema 132 is network 10 in the excel and shows as D10 1040. Since network 10 is usually D11, how do you know it's D10 1040 and not D11 1040. I know you have it correct, but how do you know it?

There's a few channels like that.

This is an instance of a 'redirected' channel. The data tells us that this channel is assigned as a part of Network 10, which normally would be D11 @99W. But the record also has a 'redirected' flag, indicating that this signal is actually being provided by resources within Network 15.

The record is assigned to TPN 2. In Network 15, data is provided by both D10 and D12. In this straightforward case, TPN 2 resolves the source as D10, since D10 provides TPNs 1 through 14 only, while D12 provides TPNs 9 through 24.

If the TPN for the redirection had been one which could be provided by either D10 or D12 (TPN 9, for example), we would go one step further and use the TID value to resolve whether this signal was from D10 or from D12.

This is an instance of a 'redirected' channel. The data tells us that this channel is assigned as a part of Network 10, which normally would be D11 @99W. But the record also has a 'redirected' flag, indicating that this signal is actually being provided by resources within Network 15.

The record is assigned to TPN 2. In Network 15, data is provided by both D10 and D12. In this straightforward case, TPN 2 resolves the source as D10, since D10 provides TPNs 1 through 14 only, while D12 provides TPNs 9 through 24.

If the TPN for the redirection had been one which could be provided by either D10 or D12 (TPN 9, for example), we would go one step further and use the TID value to resolve whether this signal was from D10 or from D12.

Hope this helps.

Thanks gct!

For D10/D12, yep, definitely different transponders. It was D10/D11 that was the interesting case.

Example ... Cinema 132 is network 10 in the excel and shows as D10 1040. Since network 10 is usually D11, how do you know it's D10 1040 and not D11 1040. I know you have it correct, but how do you know it?